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Diane Coyle picks out some of the economics books due out in the first part of the year.
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The Enlightened Economist, 1 January 2019
It’s time for what is always one of the most popular posts of the year, my somewhat random round-up of the economics books (and a few others of interest to me) due out in the first part of the year. The randomness is a mixture of the catalogues some publishers send me and my ferreting round publishers’ websites, and a few others drawn to my attention. As ever, I omit technical scholarly books with no appeal for general readers, and textbooks. Finally, this is obviously a partial list although I’m happy to update it if I’ve missed anything important. So here goes.
Not Working: Where Have All The Good Jobs Gone by David Blanchflower
Measuring Poverty Around the World by Anthony Atkinson (much missed – a posthumous publication)
Economics in Two Lessons by John Quiggin
The Technology Trap by Carl Benedikt Frey
Digital Cash by Finn Brunton
Darkness by Design: The Hidden Power of Global Capital Markets by Walter Mattli
Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics by Robert Skidelsky
Forecasting: An Essential Introduction by David Hendry, Michael Clements, and Jennifer Castle
Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy by Anders Åslund
The Essential Guide to Intellectual Property by Aram Sinnreich
1931: Debt, Crisis and the Rise of Hitler by Tobias Straumann
Immiserising Growth: When Growth Fails the Poor by Paul Shaffer, Ravi Kanbur, Richard Sandbrook
Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone by Jean Drèze
Why Superman Doesn’t Take over the World: What Superheroes Can Tell Us About Economics by J. Brian O’Roark
Replacing GDP by 2030 by Rutger Hoekstra
The Political Economy of Defence by Ron Matthews
The Wealth Effect: How the Great Expectations of the Middle Class Have Changed the Politics of Banking Crises by Jeffrey Chwieroth and Andrew Walter
Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the 21st Century By Vernon Smith and Bart Wilson
Markets and Morals: Justifying Kidney Sales and Legalising Prostitution, by Yew-Kwang Ng
How Change Happens by Cass Sunstein
Evolution or Revolution? Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy after the Great Recession ed Blanchard and Summers
How to Be Human in the Digital Economy by Nicholas Agar
The Joy of Missing Out: The Art of Self-Restraint in an Age of Excess by Svend Brinkmann
The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich by Victoria Bateman
Will the Gig Economy Prevail by Colin Crouch
The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social by Steffen Mau
The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing by Frances Coppola
Amartya Sen by Lawrence Hamilton
The Antitrust Paradigm by Jonathan Baker
Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration and Global Capital by Kimberly Clausing
The Revolution that Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives by Jen Schradie
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave Community Behind by Raghuram Rajan
The Inner Level by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson
Happy Ever After: Escaping the Myth of the Perfect Life by Paul Dolan
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies by E O Wilson
Upheaval: How Nations Cope With Crises (or Don’t) by Jared Diamond
Clear Bright Future by Paul Mason (I’m not recommending it btw…)
Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us by Jonathan Aldred (harrumph – nor this one)
Gresham’s Law: The Life and World of Queen Elizabeth I’s Banker by John Guy
The Future of Almost Everything by Patrick Dixon
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